Vehicle Maintenance Simulation Patent

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Published March 31st, 2026

Detected March 31st, 2026

Summary

The USPTO granted patent US12591860B2 to Boeing for operational simulations of planned maintenance effects for vehicles. The patent covers computing systems with processing circuitry that provides route, preparation, and planned maintenance models to simulate maintenance tasks and their effects on vehicle routing schedules. The patent contains 20 claims.

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The USPTO granted patent US12591860B2 to The Boeing Company (inventor: Bronwyn A. Jackson) for a computing system that simulates planned maintenance effects on vehicle operations. The system includes operational models for routes, preparation, and planned maintenance that generate interactions between route simulations and maintenance simulations across a route schedule.

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Operational simulations of planned maintenance for vehicles

Grant US12591860B2 Kind: B2 Mar 31, 2026

Assignee

The Boeing Company

Inventors

Bronwyn A. Jackson

Abstract

Implementations for operational simulations of planned maintenance effects for a plurality of vehicles are provided. One aspect provides a computing system comprising processing circuitry configured to provide a plurality of operational models that comprises a route model, a preparation model, and a planned maintenance model. The processing circuitry is further configured to, using the plurality of operational models, execute an operational simulation that generates interactions between a route simulation and a planned maintenance simulation for a plurality of routes in a route schedule, wherein executing the operational simulation comprises simulating performance of a scheduled maintenance task for a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles and determining an effect of the simulated performance of the scheduled maintenance task on the route simulation. The processing circuitry is further configured to output the effect of the simulated performance.